We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.

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GAMAL ABDEL NASSER, speech to Egypts National Assembly, Cairo, November 6, 1969, as reported by The Washington Post, November 7, 1969, p. 1.